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PRECIPITATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does precipitating mean?
• PRECIPITATING (adjective)
The adjective PRECIPITATING has 1 sense:
1. bringing on suddenly or abruptly
Familiarity information: PRECIPITATING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bringing on suddenly or abruptly
Context example:
the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of waterborne commerce
Similar:
causative (producing an effect)
Context examples
To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a tight fit, and the kitchen stairs seemed built for the express purpose of precipitating both servants and china pell-mell into the coalbin.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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